[Hunter] The Meteor Legend after Lydia's Life Record

On the fifth day of the plague, in the morning, the door of the isolation room was opened.

"You can go back." The administrator wearing a mask said in a heavy tone.

"Go back?" "Aren't you quarantined?" Everyone was talking.

"You can see, I'm not a psychic." The administrator took off his mask, revealing a gloomy face, his eyes were flushed, "All the psychics at the base are infected, and isolation is meaningless."

"All? Are you kidding me!"

"Where's Big Sister?! Where's the bodyguard?"

"Are ordinary people okay?"

The upper echelons of the base, who had been quarantined for a few days and were still at peace, panicked because of the news.

"Don't you understand?" The administrator raised his eyebrows violently, opened the door with a "bang", and dropped a sentence: "Elder sister's order, all return to the original residence and wait for orders!" Flicked his sleeves and left.

"Let's go." Kuroro stood up calmly.

Feitan, Madge and Pike, me and Lan and Franklin who were sent in late last night followed behind him silently.

We even said goodbye calmly to Nobunaga, who was rarely quiet.

It was only after leaving the door that I realized how serious the situation was.

The capacity of the second floor has reached its limit. At this moment, the hall is crowded with infected people pouring out from various rooms, and the silent stream of people rushes down the stairs like a flood.

Nothing but coughing and heavy footsteps.

On the way back to the room, the pungent disinfectant smell from yesterday had dissipated. There were people maintaining order in the several halls I passed by, but no one was wearing a mask. The infected person who just came out of the quarantine area was hugging his family, and the frightened crying of the child was quickly muffled...

The entire base was shrouded in the haze of this strange plague, but it operated silently and orderly.

At least, because it is certain that ordinary people will not be infected, and all the psychics have fallen, the base can use sufficient manpower to maintain order as usual.

I saw the figure of my eldest sister in the crowd, and her loud and full of breath, although it was obviously mixed with a hoarse cough.

"How long do you think...you can carry it?" Fei Tan coughed twice, speaking vaguely.

"I don't know." Kuroro said, the black eyes that turned his head glanced over the faces that suppressed anxiety.

What will happen next?

Nobody knows.

I squeezed Kuroro's hand tightly, his grip was not as sharp and powerful as usual, and his fingers were warm and slightly hot.

Go back to the room.

"Brother!" Yan, who was restless, threw herself into Lan's arms like a gust of wind.

Xia Ke casually dropped the game console, raised his head and said with relief: "Finally back."

"Everyone..." Alyssa hurried up to meet her, her hands clenched in front of her chest, her expression anxious and worried.

"Close the door." Kuroro sat on the edge of the bed and looked up.

Alyssa was responsible for closing the door, all movement outside was completely isolated, and needles could be heard in the room.After returning from at least one night of isolation, everyone sat or lay down on their beds, stretching their tired muscles and bones.

As of this morning, from Pike, March, Kurolo, to Feitan, to Franklin and Lan, all seven people had a low-grade fever, sometimes accompanied by one or two coughs.

"Little ghost, why are you alright?" Fei Tan suddenly broke the silence.

The atmosphere suddenly stagnated.

I couldn't help looking at the knight. Among the mind-killers in the room, he was the only one who was not infected, his face was rosy, and he was full of energy... quite outstanding, and suspicious.

Obviously, everyone was more or less suspicious, coupled with the anxiety brought about by the unknown disease, the knight gathered a lot of pressure for a while.

"Ah, that's what I was going to say." As if in response to the unspoken hostility, the knight raised his hands in a gesture of weakness, and his tone was rarely sincere but full of seriousness: "I seem to know this virus."

Amazing speech.

For the South Branch, which has experienced many battles, the plague is not terrible. At least [-]% of the current predicament comes from this new and unknown virus...

Unknown means more grim than grim, more terrifying than scary.

"What is it?" Kuroro asked quietly.He looked at the knight with his back straight, his palms facing each other, his fingers touching his knees, a rare solemn gesture.

"Danica virus." The knight replied calmly, without a smile on his face, his bright blond eyes seemed to climb into the shadows, and the coldness permeated people.

"I remember it was called this name." He recalled, obviously it was not a pleasant memory, "About seven or eight years ago, it was popular on Meteor Street... Although it was later confirmed that it was a virus, it was called a virus at the time. Sickness—Danica's apnea."

"Apnea?" Pike lost his voice.

"Why, has this sister heard of it?" The knight blinked, then returned to his smiling appearance, and asked Pike sideways.

Pike shook his head and said, "I've only vaguely heard the name. Go on."

"This disease killed a lot of people at the time, but it wasn't very famous, because unlike the virus you were infected with this time, the Danica virus was not contagious at that time. The cause of the disease is still unknown... Maybe it's just bad luck."

He giggled and laughed at himself, "I'm just an unlucky guy. So you don't mind, I'm fine this time, probably because I've been infected before."

"No, dyspnea is a terminal illness." Pike said suddenly, "You can't survive."

"Obviously my parents think so too." The knight shrugged his shoulders indifferently, "so they threw me from the civilian area to the waste recycling station. But it turns out that although the death rate is high, it is not [-]%. I just I survived by luck... Ah, that couple must regret it." The smile was all over the face, and the eyes were cold.

"Symptoms." Kuroro asked forcefully.

"At the beginning, there was also cough and fever, but the onset was faster and more severe. Basically, within two days after the onset of symptoms, a high fever would lead to coma, and then... the point is, the whole body's qi will be eroded by this virus, and the patient will quickly weaken, and finally Died of life failure."

"A gas-eroding virus?!" Lan repeated in surprise.

"That's why only people with psychic abilities are infected? Because ordinary people's fine pores are closed." Franklin analyzed calmly.

"I think that's the case. Qi deficiency is also called... the terminator of mind power." The knight said.

"That makes sense." Kuroro covered his mouth and thought.

"What do you know?" Feitan asked.

"Don't you feel it? The qi in our body is decreasing at an imperceptible speed." Kuroro looked around and said, "If the main function of that virus is to erode qi, then it makes sense. "

"Qi is decreasing?" Lan asked in surprise.

This, isn't this about the same as my strength——I now understand that this is no small matter!

Life and death are at stake, everyone's face changed, and they all solemnized their faces and closed their eyes to perceive.

"I can't feel it..." After a while, Pike opened his eyes and said in surprise.

Marge also shook his head to express that he didn't know.

"I don't feel it." Franklin said, asking extra cautiously, "Are you sure?"

Kuroro nodded calmly.

"I can't feel it either. But your perception of qi has always been much sharper than ours." Fei Tan raised his head and said, "Since you said yes, it must be."

"But if it goes on like this..." Lan's brows were tightly furrowed, and she hesitated to speak.

"Very dangerous." Kuroro nodded in approval, "Assuming that we are indeed infected with a variant of the Danica virus, then if we continue like this, our ending will be predictable - our vitality will be eroded and we will die of weakness."

I gasped, and just about to scold him for being alarmist and outspoken, Kurolo continued: "But since Danica virus is not contagious, and our attack is not as severe as anemia, isn't it? It can be inferred that the price of strong infectivity is slower onset and milder symptom response? Even if this simple series cannot be done, at least from the current situation, we still have more time to find countermeasures and wait for a turnaround."

I just picked it up in one breath, talking and panting are the most annoying things!Scary!

"What should we do now?" Feitan asked.

"Ah... just hold on and wait as long as you can." Kuroro put his fingers together, smiled at the side with a confident attitude, and said irresponsibly: "The infection is so fast, I'm sure the whole second district, no, the whole Meteor is now The street is troubled by this. They will come up with a solution, before all those who read the power are killed or injured, and the existing regime collapses."

"Just waiting?" March asked calmly, the little girl's cheeks were flushed with heat.

"Maybe one or two small experiments can be done. But other than that, I don't have any good solutions." Kuroro said frankly, "After all, we are all laymen when it comes to viruses or plagues."

He spread his hands, calmly: "This kind of thing should be done by professionals?"

The feeling of powerlessness was uncomfortable, and everyone was silent for a while.

Franklin suddenly asked: "Xia Ke, how did you heal?"

The knight said: "When I was about to die, the erosion suddenly stopped. Just like this, I saved my life."

"Probably produced antibodies." Kuroro said.

"Seven or eight years ago...how old were you then?" Fei Tan said suddenly, "How do you remember it so clearly?"

"Although I'm only two or three years old. But it's strange if you can't remember this kind of thing?" The knight made a grimace, and then said calmly, "I remember things early, and the master who adopted me also said something, and later I did my own research. Any questions?"

"Xia Ke," Kuroro interrupted him and asked, "Have you told the eldest sister about your matter?"

"It's impossible not to say it." The knight smiled wryly, "I am the only one who has not been infected in the base, and I was almost arrested as the culprit."

Chrollo nodded.

"Hey, if they want to drag me to slice for research, will you cover me?" the knight asked with his face in his hands.

Feitan sneered disdainfully, and Kuroro nodded calmly again: "Yes."

The knight smiled brightly, and said: "Then let me tell you one more thing. Several survivors like me were arrested and studied by the council. Although we don't know the specific results, it is said that there is progress. So, you wait Wait, maybe the parliament can really come up with a solution."

This, this hero!

But it's still a hope...

"But even if the council has an antidote, will it be given to the second district?" Lan asked uncertainly.

"This, Lydia must be able to solve it?" The knight smiled and looked at me.

"Ah?" I was startled, and subconsciously glanced at Kuroro, "I...don't know."

This, this, sure is possible, right? ? ?

Things that contain thoughts, are too weird, and things that have never been heard in the previous life seem to be...not allowed.

Ahhh!what to do?I have no idea! !

"Let's talk about it when the time comes." Kurolo said, "It is impossible for the council to completely abandon the second district." He changed the subject, his tone more serious than before——

"What I'm more worried about is, before that...whether the base can be stabilized."

Kuroro's worries, which sounded unfounded at the time, became reality the next day.

On the sixth day when the plague spread, the base had the first death of an infected person.

Things can't be hidden at all.

More than half of the people in the base are psychics, and all of them have become infected at this moment. Except for a few ordinary strong people, all of them are relatives and vassals of these psychics... Rumors and panic spread in the base faster than the virus. Spreading everywhere, buzzing whispers can be heard everywhere.

The response made by the pro-guard led by the eldest sister is not unreasonable. The facts about the Danica virus were selectively announced, concealing the existence of knights and the extremely high mortality rate, and amplifying the impact of the vaccine that is being intensively developed. Existence, to calm the tension in the base as much as possible.

Yet riots broke out.

It was the people who strengthened the ability to strengthen the mind at the base who started to make a fuss.

Speaking of this, I think they read more or less capable people, and they read discrimination→→

For example, when Fei Tan talked about this matter, he immediately said: "The reinforcement department is simple-minded and easy to be used..." Yes, there is no reinforcement department in the room... If Wo Jin hears it, he will turn against you!

Although even Nobunaga said: "Don't look at Wojin as a reinforcement system, he is not an ordinary reckless man..." Khan.

Ah, without further ado.

The reinforcement system is indeed instigated, and the reason why it can be instigated first is also very practical - as the virus erodes Qi (this is a generally recognized fact as the degree deepens), the infected The speed continued to decline.Among them, only the reinforcement system, which relies the most on physical strength, is the fastest and most affected, so it is also the easiest to rebound due to panic.

Of course, it is also true that the strengthening department is used to straight-forward battles, and is more likely to be impulsive and fooled.

What's more, the base has the largest number of reinforcement factors, and once there is a commotion, the momentum will be the largest.

……That day.

Things have to start from the beginning.

On the day we were released from the isolation room, perhaps because we felt that things would not get worse in terms of "infection", the gate of the base was reopened and a new mission was reissued.

Only those who receive the mission can enter and leave the base. The missions are mainly divided into two categories: [-]. Get in touch with the Red Eagle Society as soon as possible to collect information.[-]. Collect as many supplies nearby as possible... Regardless of the means, it doesn't matter if you try to catch fish.

It turned out afterwards that these two orders were extremely wise and decisive, and helped us through the most difficult period.

At that time, the main combat force of the base—the ability users were all in a state of low fever. A few people with special abilities who had an early onset and were not strong enough didn’t even have the strength to stand up and run for a few steps. not much.

Code-named Spider, we took on the second type of mission, me and the knight.

Kuroro originally wanted to force himself to bring me here in person, but I hugged him with tears in my arms for a while, and finally persuaded me.He has a fever all the time, and he can't even speak. I wish I could hold him in my hand and protect him. How can I let him go on a mission?

—Let me go!

I'm ashamed to say that I'm unreliable on my own. A room full of sick people finally selected a knight to accompany me, leaving Yan, who has already had considerable combat effectiveness at this time, to take care of everyone.In addition, Franklin, who is stronger, still has the strength to fight, and Lan, Feitan, and Kuroro are not just at the mercy of others - there is nothing to worry about keeping them in the base.

This time I took the task and came out. Collecting materials is a blindfold. The main task is to test my ability and verify Kuroro's two small conjectures.

Kuroro guessed that since the variant of Danica virus—let’s call it that—is infected on “Qi”, whether it is possible to remove all the virus-infected Qi directly like an operation can make the patient recover Heal at the cost of losing all Qi?

After all, theoretically speaking, losing all Qi in a short period of time does not necessarily mean death, and new Qi will be generated.If the Danica virus infection can be avoided at this cost, there is still a lot of room for maneuver in the current situation.

Without further ado, the knight and I went down the garbage mountain, and the first thing we did was to catch a virus-infected psychic to try this out.

I tried to mobilize the latent energy in my body—it’s actually not difficult if I don’t restrict my hands and feet to pursue fine manipulation—and directly poured it into the experimental subject’s body roughly, just like I used my ability to sweep "poof" to kill Venier with my thoughts. Like the little bear that appeared, he washed the experimental body clean from the inside out.

According to the report of the knight who was observing and recording, the mind of the experimental subject was indeed cleaned up in an instant like melting, including the invisible virus attached to the air, and there was not even a slag left.

Having lost almost all of its vitality, the experimental body was sluggish, its breathing was barely visible, and it was almost a dead person.This is the first time I have seen a person who has lost his whole body of energy, and the situation is indeed close to death.

"Good luck. A small amount of gas has started to form." Xia Ke Hui reported.

I stared nervously at the experimental subject on the ground, only to see his face turn from pale to gray gradually, and then his head tilted.

Passed out?I look at the knight.

The knight shook his head, regretfully said: "Dead. He is too weak, and the newly generated qi is not enough to support life. And it seems that the new qi is still weakening... The change is too small, I can't see it clearly. Let's try the next one. "

"Can you see it next time?" I asked, "Doesn't it mean that the change is so weak that you can't even feel it?"

The knight said easily: "It doesn't matter if you don't see it. The newly generated qi is very little. If there is still a virus, it will definitely not survive. So as long as one survives, it means that we have succeeded. Be patient and try a few more times." I'll know."

It's not hard to find a test subject, the key is to find a better quality one.

Not far from the rubbish mountain where the base is located, there is a large gathering place of villages. The knight and I sneaked into one of the villages by virtue of our dexterity and compactness, and captured a low-grade fever lying on the bed in the largest and most "luxury" house in the middle. Those who can.

This one looks much stronger than the previous one.

We subdued him, gagged him and tied him with a rope, then I poured energy into him and washed the Qi out of his body.New qi was being generated, and although extremely weak, this guy survived the initial dangerous period under our nervous gaze.

"Is this done?" I asked with a sigh of relief after confirming that the state of the experimental subject in front of me had stabilized.

"Wait and see." The knight sat on the chair next to him, shaking his short legs.

We waited for about two hours, and the knight sighed in great disappointment, and said, "It failed! It seems that this method will not work."

"Isn't it alive?" I wondered.

"But his qi is obviously decreasing. I think it's because the quality of qi has deteriorated, and the erosion has accelerated." The knight explained, "So, even if the original qi is replaced, the virus still exists."

"Oh..." I couldn't tell whether it was disappointment or indifference, I just said, "So there is no need to try the next one?"

"I think so." The knight spread his hands and said.

"OK, the next item." I said indifferently, bowing my head and muttering to this experimental subject who couldn't escape the fate of being infected: "Get better, get better...heal, heal, heal..."

"Is this also your ability?" The knight asked curiously.

"Probably." I stopped talking and asked, "Is it effective?"

The knight shook his head regretfully.

Not surprised, I shrugged my shoulders nonchalantly.In fact, the speech effect of [Command others] has been fluctuating. Except for the basic immobilization, other complicated operations are always ineffective. For Kurolo Feitan and the others, they have no effect at all.So far, the strongest record of this ability still rests on Illumi.

The ability limitations I know so far: one is the difficulty of the order itself, the other is the intensity of my own will, and the third is the degree of intimacy—the higher the degree of intimacy, the stronger the immunity.

To be honest, after confirming that this ability cannot be used on Kuroro and Feitan, I have no desire to heal others at all.

What's more, it is so contrary to common sense to the extent that it is against the sky, probably it was impossible to do it in the first place.

never mind.

"In that case, let's go." The knight jumped off the chair and said.

"Wait a minute." I cut off the experimental subject's trachea with my backhand, "Let's go."

"Really cautious." The knight said with a smile.

When we left, we noticed that the surrounding villagers were peeping into the house intentionally or unintentionally, their eyes flickering, and their body language was not so kind.

They found us, but we didn't care, and ran away in a hurry.

"It's going to be bad luck for those who stay here." The knight said as he walked, with a tone of watching the fire from the other side: "It seems that those ordinary people want to take this opportunity to treat them well."

"What does it have to do with us?" I didn't want to waste any time on this, and said to myself: "If this method doesn't work... oh, it's too bad!"

There are no shortcuts, and we're still clueless about this damn debilitating contagion.

"Forget it, let's move on to the next item." I said frustrated and irritated.

"What's the next item? I'm looking forward to it." The knight said lightly.

I glanced at him.Although I know that it is wrong and unreasonable to vent my anger like this, but seeing him walking beside him in such a lively and relaxed manner, I am really upset.

I suppressed my temper, turned my head and saw a crow sitting on the garbage dump, looking at us with ominous red eyes, and said lazily, "That's it. The annoying crow has five nails in his brain."

Following my words, the slick crow swayed and fell down from the garbage pile.

"Wow——" the knight's admiration was not fully released, "Boom!" There was an explosion, and the crow's corpse that fell on the ground exploded with sparks!

Both the knight and I were taken aback.

The sparks were quickly extinguished, and the crow's body was a black mass, emitting a burnt smell unique to plastic.

The knight and I went up to have a look - this, this is actually a fake crow!Bare|exposed under the scorched black feathers are clearly complicated and burnt-up electrical circuits and mechanisms!

"God." The knight squatted down, directly tore off the feather camouflage on the surface of the fake crow with his fingers, observed the machinery below, and murmured a series of terms, probably circuits, chips, etc. After a while, he was amazed Said: "Amazing workmanship!"

I stood by and watched him study, and asked, "Is there anything unusual?"—Why is there such a well-disguised mechanical crow here?

"I don't know," the knight said distressedly, "the important part is burned too badly."

"It's easy." I blinked and said, "Give me a mechanical crow that is as good as this one."

A lifelike crow "plopped" down, and it was flapping its wings to fly away. The knight's sharp hand quickly grabbed his neck. The ominous red eyes turned out to be two light bulbs, which flickered uncontrollably.

"Wow!" The knight broke the struggling mechanical crow, his big green eyes were wide open, and the eyes were shining with excitement, like an ordinary little boy who received his favorite toy.

But then, he plucked off the camouflage feathers on the crow's body in a cruel and skillful way that ordinary boys don't have, exposing the iron sheet embedded with screws underneath, and raised his head to ask me for a bunch of tools.

He moved like flying, and dismantled the mechanical crow layer by layer, revealing the complete, complex mechanical structure with a metallic luster inside.

"...Lydia, I'm afraid we have made a big discovery." He took out a small crystal clear glass tube from the crow-like cavity, and the light green liquid inside kept shaking with his movements.

"What is this?" I bent down to look, frowning and asked.

"According to the structure," the knight gestured at the unrecognizable wreck of the crow with the screwdriver in his other hand, "as the crow flies, the liquid in the test tube will spray out from the tail, wherever it flies."

My heart skipped a beat.

"Didn't we keep guessing how the virus spread so quickly in such a short period of time?" The knight turned his head, the light green solution in the test tube and his green eyes complemented each other, flashing a strange light.

"Do you want to bet? Bet on whether this thing is a variant of the Danica virus."

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